Dharmi

They subsist in the mind of the One, via the Nous according to Plotinus. Yes. Shadows on the cave wall. Not the true reality, not unreal either, but n...

God is all-knowing and all-pervading. He dwells in every single quantum particle, so he is aware of pain, but he's infinitely beyond it as well. Becau...

Sadly, and it's most sad because there's no difference between black, white etc. Or even between a fly or a roach or a plant or a dog or a person. We'...

Yes, Berkeley is a great philosopher. But I take my philosophy from the Vedic Scriptures primarily, the most important of which are the Bhagavad Gita ...

I'm not saying it's in *your* imagination. It's in God's Mind. The Infinite All-Pervading Unoriginate Consciousness. It's partially in your mind, beca...

I'm a Panentheist, not a Pantheist. But, that's fair. If you aren't interested, you're not interested. Apologetics has nothing to do with it, we're ta...

humans aren't animals now? Yeah. Okay.

There's a Japanese/Chinese (East Asian, don't know which particularly) Jesus, a Syrian Jesus, an Egyptian Jesus, yes an Ethiopian one.

Interesting. I didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.

You have a very serious ego problem. You can't tolerate anyone else's opinion for even a second. That's pretty sad.

Oh my God dude really? This conversation is over. You're not actually interested in a serious discussion.

I have a body. I'm not the body. And the body is not material. So again, you're on this low level that I'm not engaging with. You think words make rea...

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Nobody believed in "material objects" before the 16th century. Materialism was not believed by even the Epicureans. This is just a posthoc reading bac...

No, it doesn't . That's a language game. You need to read up on Derrida, Wittgenstein.

I admitted I have a body, but that body is not "material" that is just an assertion.

No, they are demonstrably not, Matter has never been demonstrated to exist. Soul emerges from matter? Dude, you've lost it. Go lie down somewhere. Thi...

No, it's not an a priori to all science. It's a priori to modern scientific method that's based on the mechanical philosophy of Descartes and others. ...

I'm not a Foundationalist, so I am not claiming certainty.

Qualities of experience is not matter. You're asserting this, without justification.

What would it otherwise be based on? Science? Science is based on tentative, limited, particular empirical sense data. It's pragmatic. So there would ...

It's a belief. I'm glad you admit it. There's absolutely no such thing as matter outside of your ad hoc belief. It's a religion. Great. There are no u...

Everything you say is a spook. Is it universally true there are no universals?

No, it's the worldview that I have. Believing that everything in your mind is a chemical illusion is mental illness.

But we've never experienced natures or matter. And a nature is a universal. Every metaphysician knows that.

Correct. I am a spirit soul which has a body. A body is like an avatar in a video game.

Because those philosophies are inconsistent. "There are natures but there are not." Pure sophistry.

Speaking of nominalist philosophy isn't a derail, trying to talk about the history of it is a derail. Those different issues.

No, matter is not provable. Qualities of experience are all that has ever been proved. You've decided ad hoc to call these qualities of experience "ma...

Substances, natures, essences are universals. How can you not understand that? Platonism, at least in it's classical formulation, I actually reject. I...

That's also false. Modern science says humanity is 350,000 years old. More than that, you're just assuming modern science is true. Which is just an as...

Because we have historiographical studies of ancient societies, and as far as we can tell, the vast majority of human societies held to a form of Idea...

Here's another point, Nazareth doesn't even seem to have existed during the time of Jesus. What's more, it doesn't even seem to be the case that he wa...

That's also false. Children are believers in gods, angels, demons, entities like that, until society socially conditions them out of it. That's been s...

I know, you're a nihilist. Everything is worthless to you. I understand that perfectly.

Yes it is. Neutrality is a position. If I was debating whether we should put criminals in jail or not, being neutral is a position. It's not unbiased....

It's only 700 years old. "Platonism" is as old as humans have been walking the Earth. And I'm not arguing for Aristotle's metaphysics. I dont accept t...

The cost is discipline and time. And you're obviously not interested. Don't bother. You can stay in your post-truth worldview, and I have my worldview...

Right. So that's exactly my point, you aren't even clear on what your own position is. So how can I answer your position if even you are not clear on ...

Uh, I haven't seen it a single time. Are you an empiricist? You disagreed with my analysis of empiricism. You also disagreed with my analysis of ratio...

That's fine, but I'm asking you, what do you consider genuine epistemology? You can't have this double standard where I have to provide my epistemolog...

Like I said, the demonstration is through the third form of epistemology, which is consciousness. Through consciousness, we can know the Supreme Consc...

It's not unknowable. That's what I am saying. It's very knowable, you just need to do the experiment. What you're saying is like what people would arg...

So, I'm not going to respond to all of this, only parts. The first part about Celsus: you have no way of knowing if Celsus had any sources for Jesus o...

Some people say yes, others say no. I personally think it isn't, but...

Modernity and Postmodernity are indefensible. Nihilism is a philosophically indefensible position.

Oh no, I understand everything your position says very well. Words have no concrete meaning, yes. Which means everything you say has no concrete meani...

Language is socially constructed by humans. I think Daniel Everett in his book "Language: The Cultural Tool" has proved as much. I am not taken by lan...

I know about Ironism, I think I own Rorty's "Contingency, Irony and Solidarity" that, or another work of his. I own one of his books. Nevertheless, ju...

Yes, I recognize that. And by your own admission, there is no truth. Which means, again, by your own admission your position is not true. I appreciate...